At first I was focused on building a PC for the same price as the PS4: $400. But I wanted a good graphics card, and then a better processor, and a little more RAM, the awesome Asus Gryphon motherboard, and then of course I needed a monitor.......... Eventually my rig doubled in price. One money saving strategy stayed throughout the project:: the case. I had decided at the beginning of the project to build the case out of scrap wood to save the whopping $50 price of a pre-built one. My original design also called for an old moose antler to be attached as a lid, and one variant of that design would actually have had the components screwed into the antler itself. Alas, the moose antler proved not to be a practical option, so I had to compensate for the loss of that Item by making the rest of the case more elaborate.
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Thursday, December 19, 2013
Hex: my DIY PC
The story of how I came to build my own Gaming rig from scratch is a long tale that started with the announcement of the PS4. I decided that I would buy one the day it released, but over the summer I began to doubt the wisdom of this. In the end I decided that the merits of a home-built gaming PC outweighed those of the the PS4. Besides, how hard could it be? Pretty hard- as it turns out I have the amazing.....talent for making a simple project into a 3 month epic endeavor.
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